The National Judicial Council (NJC) has begun screening the 22 justices nominated by the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) to fill vacant seats on the Supreme Court Bench. The screening is taking place in the Boardroom of the NJC, and the exercise is presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola. ...

    It is obvious that in Nigeria today it is no longer the supremacy of the law but the supremacy of man, no longer the rule of Law but the rule of man. Before the law, everyone is equal; the law is supreme, and no one is above the law. For anyone who has ...

22 justices of the Court of Appeal have been nominated by the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) to the National Judicial Council (NJC) for potential elevation to the Supreme Court. This development marks a significant step in the ongoing efforts to strengthen the country’s judiciary system. The 22 names in the FJSC document, indicate that ...

The Supreme Court has postponed its sittings scheduled to be held for the whole of this week, from November 13 to 17. The National Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Akorede Lawal, confirmed this in a notification he shared with the association’s members via an official e-mail at the weekend. Lawal, while notifying ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and former secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, Afam Osigwe, shares his thoughts with SOLOMON ODENIYI on the poor welfare of judicial officers, prison congestion, and the delay in the dispensation of justice, among sundry issues In the retirement speech of Justice Muhammad Dattijo, he said the Chief Justice of ...

  Kindly be informed that his lordship, the Honourable, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon.Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, GCON has directed the rescheduling of the sitting of the Supreme Court of Nigeria earlier scheduled to hold between the 13th and 17th November, 2023. This is to enable Honourable Justices of the Supreme Court attend the All ...

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has scheduled January 26, 2024, as the date for the judgment in the appeal filed by former House of Representatives member, Farouk Lawan. Mr. Lawan, who is currently serving a jail sentence, seeks to overturn the February 24, 2022, verdict of the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The case, presided ...

  On Thursday, October 26, the Supreme Court of Nigeria gave its judgment in the appeals by Waziri Atiku Abubakar and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and Mr. Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) challenging the September 6 judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) which affirmed Tinubu’s victory in the February 25 ...

The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has said the position of the Supreme Court, affirming President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 election, leaves many questions unanswered. He also said Nigeria was the bigger loser of the court verdict. He said, “The bigger loss is not mine but ...

My lord, the Honourable Chief Justice of Nigeria Olukayode Ariwoola GCON permit me to adopt and rely on the protocols you earlier established at this event. With your leave having been sought and obtained, let me outrightly make one confession to this distinguished audience. Initially, it was not my desire that a valedictory be held ...

  Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammed retired yesterday after 47 years of service and attaining the compulsory retirement age of 70 years for judicial officers in the country. At the event graced by top members of the judiciary and eminent individuals from different walks of life, the retired justice delivered a 31-page exit speech in which ...

  Robert Clarke, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says the lawyers who represented the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in suits challenging President Bola Tinubu’s election did not display a good sense of legal practice. The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Thursday affirmed the election of President Tinubu in the 2023 ...

Nigeria’s President-elect Bola Tinubu sits at the International Centre waiting to receive his certificate of return by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja on March 1, 2023. (Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the election of Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president in the 2023 general election. ...

The application put forth by Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to introduce additional evidence in his appeal against President Bola Tinubu was denied by the Supreme Court. The appeal filed by Atiku was rejected on the grounds of absence of jurisdiction. The apex court determined that the case was ...

The Supreme Court has given its approval for live transmission of the judgment of the February 2023 presidential election petitions. Heavily armed security guards surround the area surrounding the Supreme Court and the surrounding roadways. The petition against President Bola Tinubu filed by Mr Peter Obi and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was pending a decision by ...

Former lawmaker Shehu Sani has told the judges of the Supreme Court to fast and pray to seek the face of God concerning the conflicting nature of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s certificate. The apex court said on Monday that there are conflicting letters from Chicago State University (CSU) on Tinubu’s certificate. Justice John Okoro, chairman ...